constitutional · federal
Fourteenth Amendment — Equal Protection & Due Process
U.S. Const. amend. XIV, § 1
All persons born or naturalized in the U.S. are citizens. No state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process, nor deny any person the equal protection of the laws. Basis for incorporating most Bill of Rights protections against the states.
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